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Hundreds of schools in Georgia cancel lessons

Georgia Materials 27 January 2016 11:56 (UTC +04:00)
The Georgian Education and Science Ministry has decided to suspend the educational process at 384 public schools due to flu virus, as well as the deteriorating weather, the Georgian media reported with reference to the ministry Jan. 27, Sputnik Georgia news agency reported.
Hundreds of schools in Georgia cancel lessons

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 27

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The Georgian Education and Science Ministry has decided to suspend the educational process at 384 public schools due to flu virus, as well as the deteriorating weather, the Georgian media reported with reference to the ministry Jan. 27, Sputnik Georgia news agency reported.

The lessons will be held on Saturdays instead of the skipped days, the ministry said.

The quarantine was introduced at 180 schools in Georgia, including a few dozen schools in Tbilisi. In Georgia, the Health Ministry recommends to postpone the school activity if the percentage of pupils missing lessons due to illness is higher than 20.

By this time, the virus is being observed among 332 people per 100,000 inhabitants of the country, the Georgian National Center for Disease Control and Public Health said. The epidemic threshold for Georgia is 500 cases per 100,000 people.

Georgia's remaining 204 schools have been closed due to adverse weather conditions in four districts of the country, namely, Kakheti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Adjara and Guria.

Bad weather has been causing problems in Georgia since January 19. The restrictions are periodically imposed for the traffic on the central highways and internal roads due to ice-crusted ground and poor visibility.

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